Post by Arch Stanton on Aug 31, 2019 15:44:56 GMT

Can It Be Love (1992)

Two complete dweebs decide to go to Fort Lauderdale during the summer holidays in the hope that there might be an extremely thin chance that they might get to meet a girl from the Delta sorority.Once there they have their car trashed by a psychopathic man mountain called Pigiron, who takes an instant dislike to them and then discover they've been ripped off by the holiday lettings company.Destitute, homeless and without wheels, it appears the boys have hit rock bottom, however then comes a chance meeting with a hot, female private detective..

Now employed, with a cool car and money no object our hapless new detectives accept the mission to locate a missing heiress. The only hot tips being that she's a Delta and has a birthmark in the shape of a rose somewhere on her body. . . And so with time running out and Pigiron also hunting the girl, they must try and deploy all their most effective pick up tricks if they are to get any Delta chicks naked in order to find the heiress.

I like this. I've seen it many times but until last night, not for years.It's dumb but plenty of fun, with loads of skin on display, as our heroes run topless photoshoots, hide surveillance cameras in the Delta sorority showers and hire a yacht to pull the girls.In fact this film is particularly good if you like wet T-shirt competitions, because there are quite a few of those. One of the heroes is so weedy he looks like a gimpier version of Cliff Richard. Most amusing.

Can I actually recommend this to a serious film connoisseur? Not really, unless you're one aged 15 and have access to beer.However if you like this kind of harmless, stupid nonsense and can appreciate bikini bimbos getting their kit off, then you can do much worse.

Post by mybodyguard on Aug 31, 2019 16:07:05 GMT

Yah, I remember 3 O'Clock High as being a good one. There are a ton of cr*p films in this genre, jno, but also very good ones. These films aren't ever high on critics' lists, and are always more fan appreciated. The safest bets are ones that feature actors who would go on to have good film or television careers afterward.

Two from the 90s that are both full of young acting talent, and also good songs and soundtracks are Can't Hardly Wait and Empire Records.

Can't Hardly Wait is all about one giant end of high school party. It features Seth Green in a hilarious performance as a wanna be rapper. It also has the usual teen storyline of good guy likes the prettiest girl, but she is dating the biggest dope.

Empire Records takes place in an independent music shop run by Anthony LaPagila, who is being threatened to be bought out by a large music store chain. It's all about the eccentric teen employees and their many issues. The movie mostly takes place in the store and back room. It features a great parody of your typical full of himself pop star (Maxwell Caulfield) who makes a visit to the store to sign autographs, and his interaction with the smitten Liv Tyler character and the rather troubled Renee Zelwegger.

Again, Empire Records I’ve seen.Can’t Hardly Wait I’ve never even heard of. Mind you it is a sort of generic, easily dismissed title. Definitely not seen it though.

Here's the trailer. I've never heard of Can It Be Love. Must have missed that one.

Post by mybodyguard on Aug 31, 2019 16:18:24 GMT

Just One Of The Girls (1993) is an R rated knockoff of the 80s comedy Just One Of The Guys. This one is raunchier and bit more absurd, with Corey Haim crossdressing as a girl and trying to talk like one. It's pretty hilarious at times, and naturally in any 80s/90s comedy where a character dresses like a girl, he gets access to the girls locker room and the inevitable shower room scene occurs!

Post by mybodyguard on Sept 1, 2019 0:04:23 GMT

Oddly the director, Alan Smithee, was really made up of Paul Aaron and Terry Winsor. Winsor is a strange one, he was the director that filmed part of it. He was from the uk and made the funny, British, New Years Eve set, teen comedy Party Party (1983).Aaron was hired after Winsor was sacked and hated the finished film. So put on Alan Smithee as director.

I've never heard of Party Party before this thread, and then I was in a record shop today and there was the soundtrack on vinyl, sitting in the section marked 80s/New Wave.

Post by jno on Sept 1, 2019 2:03:44 GMT

My god, I have heard of 1982's "Party Party" but not seen it. Like mybodyguard I only know the soundtrack album as I used to own it - the reason: as a former collector of Police records, this has two tracks from Sting on it: 'Tutti Frutti' and 'Need Your Love So Bad'.

I have also seen 'The Goonies' but is that teen comedy? For me it was more like Indiana Jones for wee'uns.

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Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 1, 2019 4:30:45 GMT

Right 1st, for a start Party Party is a mint film. Very amusing. British, concerning a bunch of teens that have a New Year’s Eve party and everything goes to sh1t/people fall in love/stupidity ensues. Loads of Brit TV faces in it like Karl Howman, Perry Fenwick, Clive Mantle, Daniel Peacock, Caroline Quentin... etc etc it’s a classic. jno you’d love it and it’s in the CFA! Great 80s UK soundtrack.

2nd, Goonies is defo a teen comedy.

3rd, I’ve never heard of either of those gender bender comedies but I have seen that one where a girl pretends to be a boy to go to college to join a football (US = soccer) team.I cannot remember the title, though it is modern.

Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Sept 3, 2019 19:42:05 GMT

As Daz says, Weird Science is a good film. Kelly Brock is very sexy.

I like The Sure Thing which is one of my favourite films - I watched it again only a few weeks ago. It's very charming with great characters and memorable scenes - such as the bar scene, and shotgunning of beer.

Post by mybodyguard on Sept 4, 2019 2:10:14 GMT

I like The Sure Thing which is one of my favourite films - I watched it again only a few weeks ago. It's very charming with great characters and memorable scenes - such as the bar scene, and shotgunning of beer.

I had completely forgotten about The Sure Thing. Great film with John Cusack.

Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 4, 2019 6:46:04 GMT

I like The Sure Thing which is one of my favourite films - I watched it again only a few weeks ago. It's very charming with great characters and memorable scenes - such as the bar scene, and shotgunning of beer.

The Sure Thing is a classic. Really good movie. I don’t think I’ve seen it for 20years.

Post by westldner on Sept 10, 2019 21:35:33 GMT

Mannequin is a classic. It had the actor as the security guard who later appeared in the Police Academy films. Jefferson Starship did the soundtrack for the end credits, Never Gonna Stop Us Now. The movie Mannequin is about an artist who gets employed in a shopping mall to help with the window displays and the Mannequin becomes alive and the guy and the alive mannequin dates and parties in the store while he's working late. British actress Kim Cattrall plays the mannequin when it becomes alive.

I'm aware of loads of 80s films. Just don't want to take the crown mentioning them all. A few late 90s and early 2000s films however.

I'm more of a Road Trip fan, when one of the guys sends a tape accidentally to his girlfriend while he was at university and rushes to try to get the VHS tape back.

The New Guy, the guy in Road Trip was the main guy in The New Guy. I like the escapism in that movie, how he tries to get in trouble in his first high school to be in another to try again and makes up for it. Does make me feel lost.

Porky's - I haven't seen it in years, possibly 1989, but I remember to quite liking it, possibly be a load of shyte though.

I actually like Porky's but it is somewhat predictable. A bunch of guys who team up to help each other and meet a club owner who's like the biggest bully in town and just want to teach him a lesson. They get what they want.

Post by Arch Stanton on Sept 12, 2019 14:23:20 GMT

Mannequin is a classic. It had the actor as the security guard who later appeared in the Police Academy films. Jefferson Starship did the soundtrack for the end credits, Never Gonna Stop Us Now. The movie Mannequin is about an artist who gets employed in a shopping mall to help with the window displays and the Mannequin becomes alive and the guy and the alive mannequin dates and parties in the store while he's working late. British actress Kim Cattrall plays the mannequin when it becomes alive.

I'm aware of loads of 80s films. Just don't want to take the crown mentioning them all. A few late 90s and early 2000s films however.

I'm more of a Road Trip fan, when one of the guys sends a tape accidentally to his girlfriend while he was at university and rushes to try to get the VHS tape back.

The New Guy, the guy in Road Trip was the main guy in The New Guy. I like the escapism in that movie, how he tries to get in trouble in his first high school to be in another to try again and makes up for it. Does make me feel lost.

Porky's - I haven't seen it in years, possibly 1989, but I remember to quite liking it, possibly be a load of shyte though.

I actually like Porky's but it is somewhat predictable. A bunch of guys who team up to help each other and meet a club owner who's like the biggest bully in town and just want to teach him a lesson. They get what they want.

Mannequin is okay, silly fun. Didn't they do a remake. Whatever happened to Andrew McCarthy I haven't seen him in anything for ages.He's got some real form in this thread though.

Interestingly isn't Kim Cattrall also in Porky's? Doesn't she play the 'noisy' cheerleader?

Road Trip was great. The New Guy I only ever saw part of. DJ Quales (or whatever that skinny guy is called) was in a movie called Comic Book Villains - not a film I would say is a teen comedy as such but it's very very good. For some reason I really liked it. I've seen it a few times over the years. It's about these comic book nerds who are all trying to get their hands on this sacred collection of comics.

Post by westldner on Sept 12, 2019 21:04:46 GMT

Mannequin is a classic. It had the actor as the security guard who later appeared in the Police Academy films. Jefferson Starship did the soundtrack for the end credits, Never Gonna Stop Us Now. The movie Mannequin is about an artist who gets employed in a shopping mall to help with the window displays and the Mannequin becomes alive and the guy and the alive mannequin dates and parties in the store while he's working late. British actress Kim Cattrall plays the mannequin when it becomes alive.

I'm aware of loads of 80s films. Just don't want to take the crown mentioning them all. A few late 90s and early 2000s films however.

I'm more of a Road Trip fan, when one of the guys sends a tape accidentally to his girlfriend while he was at university and rushes to try to get the VHS tape back.

The New Guy, the guy in Road Trip was the main guy in The New Guy. I like the escapism in that movie, how he tries to get in trouble in his first high school to be in another to try again and makes up for it. Does make me feel lost.

I actually like Porky's but it is somewhat predictable. A bunch of guys who team up to help each other and meet a club owner who's like the biggest bully in town and just want to teach him a lesson. They get what they want.

Mannequin is okay, silly fun. Didn't they do a remake. Whatever happened to Andrew McCarthy I haven't seen him in anything for ages.He's got some real form in this thread though.

Interestingly isn't Kim Cattrall also in Porky's? Doesn't she play the 'noisy' cheerleader?

Road Trip was great. The New Guy I only ever saw part of. DJ Quales (or whatever that skinny guy is called) was in a movie called Comic Book Villains - not a film I would say is a teen comedy as such but it's very very good. For some reason I really liked it. I've seen it a few times over the years. It's about these comic book nerds who are all trying to get their hands on this sacred collection of comics.

Mannequin had a sequel but I don't think it caught on. There was talk they wanted to remake Mannequin for this decade. They wanted to make it all hologram or something like that. I'm not sure what happened to Andrew McCarthy. Really looks like he's keeping a low profile.

I hadn't even noticed Kim Cattrall was in Porky. They styled that movie so well. Made it as raunchy as they could possibly be. As I remember, they used the young female characters just to poke fun at the males and made them like they were supporting characters for them. I think it's interesting how she's in Sex in the City with Sarah Jessica Parker, who appeared in the teen flick Girls Just Want To Have Fun. I wasn't sure why I wanted to watch that. Average film like everyone is saying, some way to move on.

DJ Qualls, he's really tall. I was surprised and I hadn't known he was a model. I hadn't seen him in Comic Book Villains. Another actor who's being a character in other films to mentor other characters. I did watch Road Trip: Beer Pong, where he appeared again with the next generation on their road trip.